Sir,

Could I possibly place an appeal in your newspaper - readers letters? This is a follow up to the one you may have published for me three years ago when I asked for National Service sappers in your area to get in touch with me about their experiences from 50 years ago.

The resulting book - 'The Royal Engineers and the National Service Years, 1939 -1963, A Military and Social History', has now been published.

However, I received so many photographs from the 140 contributors that I was unable to find room for all but a few of them. Now other purchasers of the book have supplemented the collection and I need to compile a companion volume of photos and documents.

At this stage I thought it would be a good idea to see if any other retired sappers out there would like to add their old black and white photos for posterity too.

If anyone would like to have them included, then please get in touch.

Eric Pegg,

14 Reginald Street,

Burwood,

Christchurch,

New Zealand,